Can you explain why this is noteworthy, and how this version of the book differs from other editions that have been circulating for decades? Library of America: The new LOA Bradbury volume includes what became his settled intention for the text of The Martian Chronicles. Photograph by Mary Frampton for the Los Angeles Times, July 1964 (Associated Press, 1966). Ray Bradbury examines UCLA student art inspired by one of his characters. Via email, Eller discussed distinctive features of LOA’s Bradbury edition, and how Bradbury’s characteristic themes are thrown into greater relief by having these particular titles brought together in one volume. Eller is also emeritus Chancellor’s Professor of English at Indiana University and co-founder of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, which he directed for a decade until his retirement in 2021. He is the author of the definitive, three-volume Ray Bradbury biography and served as general editor of the Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury and The New Bradbury Review. Eller, who brings impeccable credentials to the task. Novels & Story Cycles is edited by Jonathan R. Neil Gaiman may have put it best when he stated, “I can imagine all kinds of worlds and places, but I cannot imagine a world without Bradbury.” With these four works Bradbury helped elevate speculative fiction from the newsstand pulp magazines to the vital center of American literary culture, and their influence only continues to grow in the twenty-first century.

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